Local business owners in San Miguel de Allende complain they've been hit with three disasters in a row: drug violence reports, the economic collapse, and the swine flu epidemic. A cabbie told me yesterday he didn't make enough in May to pay for the medicines he's supposed to take. Today I discovered my favorite café has closed. A lot of people are hurting...

That is sad to see. The airport had a few people in there today, but there was no line-up for check-in and the airport was not packed. Did see a nice line-up at the ferry, so hopefully more people are coming every day. And ditto to what John wrote - the taxi driver we use is barely scraping enough together to eat too. Tough times.

From everything I am hearing things are pretty bad on Isla. If it were not so hot and humid during the summer hurricane months I would book a trip. As it is I probably won’t be back on Isla until October.